Fees and Registration:

$110 - Members of the American Library Association, LACUNY, METRO, and subscribers to the U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D^TM Librarian

$135 – Unaffiliated with any of the above

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Program & Speakers

8:15 – 9:00 AM: Registration

9:00 AM – Noon: Morning Program:

Moderator: Maurice J. Freedman, Conference Organizer; Publisher, The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D^TM Librarian, the ‘how I run my library good’^SM letter; and Past President, ALA

Greetings and Introduction: James G. Neal, Host and Vice President for Information Services and. University Librarian, Columbia University

• 1. Keynote Speaker: Yakov Shrayberg, Open Access in Russia and CIS Library and Information Space.

  Director General of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology and President of ILIAC.

  Because of his preeminent leadership position in the Russian and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) library community, Yakov Shrayberg is in an expert position to discuss the plans and strategies of these nations to create a database of electronic publications held by their libraries and their perspective on the issue of open access to electronic publications. It also will be good to learn what the implications for Russia and the CIS of U.S. open access and related developments. Can such U.S. projects as the Open Knowledge Commons, SPARC, the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, etc. serve as models for them?

Refreshments Break (10:15-10:30)

• 2. Daniel Clancy, Whither the Google Books Project?
  Engineering Director for Google Book Search

  What are Google’s plans for the vast electronic database it is creating of the full-text of books in the world’s great research libraries? What are Google’s short and long-range plans for access for the users of libraries that are and are not project participants? What are Google’s book search strategies and what has Google Book Search learned about how the books database is being used? What fee structure(s) are planned for the proprietary access that will be available to the general population? What key points need to be understood by librarians and publishers about the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement?

Lunch [Off-site, no host]

1:30PM Afternoon Program

• 3. Heather Joseph, SPARC and Electronic Serial Publications—Open Access and
  Not-so-Open Access to the Serial Literature Vital to Research in the Scholarly Community

  Executive Director, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Washington DC.

  SPARC’s self-description (http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/faq/index.shtml#1) states the issues well: "SPARC is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system. These dysfunctions have reduced dissemination of scholarship and crippled libraries. SPARC serves as a catalyst for action, helping to create systems that expand information dissemination and use in a networked digital environment while responding to the needs of scholars and academe." Heather Joseph will examine the past, present, and future of open access to electronic serials databases and the impact of proprietary serial databases on scholarly research. If you are tired of being gouged for access to commercial databases—an especially charged issue in today’s economy—some alternatives and options will be offered.

Refreshments Break (2:30-2:45PM)

• 4. Maura Marx, Open Access Is Free Access to Electronic Books—Multiple Projects to Create a Reservoir of Electronic Print Materials

  Executive Director, Open Knowledge Commons, Boston MA

  Why are such open access initiatives as the Open Knowledge Commons, the Open Content Alliance, the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, etc. (all "open" large scale digitization projects—all alternatives to the restricted access Google Books Project) so important?

  The Open Knowledge Commons is a new project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help coordinate the myriad worldwide initiatives dedicated to the goal of a universal digital library. A prime motivation for Sloan funding was the need for a central, unified advocacy organization to make the larger vision of a global, multilingual open library possible. Maura Marx will explore the issues dividing the fee-based access to the Google Books Project database and free access to information, which has been the foundation of the public library movement in the U.S.

Conclusion and Wrap-Up (3:45-4:00PM)

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